Natural disasters books

An urgent and provocative call to action from the world's leading climate scientist.  Read More >>

An urgent and provocative call to action from the world's leading climate scientist.  Read More >>

An urgent and provocative call to action from the world's leading climate scientist.  Read More >>

Offers scientific information and survival tips on how to survive a tsunami. This book: describes precious lessons...  Read More >>

Offers scientific information and survival tips on how to survive a tsunami. This book: describes precious lessons...  Read More >>

Earthquakes takes a much needed international and interdisciplinary approach to this complex natural and social...  Read More >>

Three major aspects may help to explain this phenomenon: The changing frequency-magnitude relationship of the natural...  Read More >>

This book is designed to provide information on the drought process, meteorological, hydrological, agriculture,...  Read More >>

Cataclysms on the Columbia chronicles the geological research that led to the discovery of powerful prehistoric...  Read More >>

English summary: Climate change is often associated with an increase in damage resulting from natural disasters....  Read More >>

Offers a vision of the dynamics of the main disasters in South America, describing their mechanisms and consequences...  Read More >>

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This volume is a valuable resource for public policymakers, health care agencies, providers who plan for large-scale...  Read More >>

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The land between Idaho and the Cascade Mountains is characterized by gullies, coulees, and deserts--in geologic...  Read More >>

In The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history,...  Read More >>

Indigenous Knowledge (IK) has been practised in communities over time. This book offers a systematic study of IK...  Read More >>

Includes more than one hundred aerial photographs the author took of Hurricane Ike's grim aftermath accompanied...  Read More >>

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On Shismaref Island in Alaska, homes are being washed into the sea. In the South Pacific, small island nations face...  Read More >>

The effects of floods, droughts, hurricanes, and earthquakes and tsunamis have destroyed people's lives and their...  Read More >>

On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests...  Read More >>

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